Eric Burgess
Blacksburg, SC *****
adu4dh@r.postjobfree.com
Work Experience
Metal Masters - Newberry, SC December 2016 to Present
Metal Master Inc. is a leading metalwork, welding, mechanical services, and fabrication contractor. They also supply millwright, pipe installation, plastic fabrication, powder coating, and construction services.
Maintenance Mechanic/Welder/Millwright
One of two-hundred contract Maintenance Mechanics maintaining and employing a professional work place while leading a crew of (5) or more persons conducting routine mechanical maintenance, new equipment installation, decommissioning, welding, metal fabrication, and millwright work.
Skills:
-Field Service work traveling to and from project sites, interfacing with the customer on progress and deadlines, personnel management
-Troubleshooting pneumatic and hydraulic systems, repairing and replacing air and water lines
-Repairing/replacing motors, actuators, hoses, chains, sprockets, belts, bearings, rotors, rollers
-Repairing/replacing wiring, PLCs, laser motion detectors, light curtains, switches, sensors, e-stop
-Familiarity with machine shop tools, welding shop, powder coating, and paint shops
-Heavy equipment operation including cranes, scissor lifts, man-lifts, forklifts
-Plumbing, light electrical wiring
-MIG, Stick, and TIG welding (listed in order of most proficient to least)
Projects:
-BMW - demolition and retrofit of the X5 and X7 full assembly lines with new conveyors, lifts and pneumatics
-Georgia Pacific – provided on-site maintenance and millwright services for paper/plywood plant with large, high-temperature kilns (Prosperity, SC and Madison, GA locations)
-Norbord – re-fabricated entire plant from kilns to re-wiring, tearing out all old metal, fabricating new parts, welding them into place
-Mercedes
-Huger
-Azeta food processing plant
Teachers Assistant
Palmetto Unified - Allendale, SC October 2010 to December 2016
-Maintaining and employing a professional environment with (10) or more persons while conducting
-Metal/Wood fabricating to specific specialized orders.
Burgess Customs - Simpsonville, SC March 2006 to October 2010
Owner/Fabricating
-Maintaining, employing a professional work environment and supervising (5) or more persons while performing customizations on motorcycles, cars, furniture, and/or all things desired to be customized.
-As well handling any and all overhead, paper work, invoices, pick up, deliveries, painting, metal fabricating, general maintenance, lighting/wiring, and bolt-ons.
USAF - Washington, DC January 2002 to March 2006
Security/Maintenance
Maintaining and employing homeland securities at the White House, Pentagon, Arlington National
Cemetery, escorting Honorable Dignitaries while conducting general maintenance of weaponry and vehicles used to conduct the above described.
Maintenance Mechanic/Welder/Millwright/Metal Fabricator
Education
Bachelors in Business Administration - Marketing June 2018
USC - Greenville, SC
Master Carpenter January 2014 to April 2016
Palmetto Unified - Allendale, SC
Skills
Welding, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Industrial Maintenance, PLCs, Conveyor, Material Handling Equipment
Military Service January 2002 to March 2006
Branch: USAF
Service Country: United States
Rank: E-5
Commendations: Honor Flight, Fitness Achievement, Eagle Eye Marksman, (2) Air Force Achievement awards and many more